San Jose Adult Entertainment: Highs, lows of Cannabis Act

… By legalizing marijuana, it would create jobs, pump money into the economy and destroy the cartels,” he said. “The money would be great, but there need to be restrictions as well. People shouldn’t be able to just walk into a Kmart and buy a pack.”
The Chico State Student Democratic Club also supports the initiative, said senior Dylan Shelters, president of the club.
“We support the citizens’ right to choose how marijuana should be regulated,” he said.
Though many may view the revenue given toward education and health care as “drug money,” taxing marijuana is a necessary evil, Adley said. California has the opportunity to get out of debt in possibly less than 10 years.
“In Nevada, school systems aren’t impacted by furlough days because their state taxes casinos and prostitution,” he said. “There aren’t any furloughs because of the millions of dollars that the state makes.”

See the full article from “The Orion”

San Jose Adult Entertainment: Tears, confusion, anger in continuance of rape case

The victim initially lied to police about the incident after calling them from a friend’s house March 21, according to court documents. She allegedly told them that she had been assaulted by four men who dragged her from West Eighth Street near Dowdy Street into a nearby alley, where one of them sodomized her, according to court records. However, police interviewed people who lived in the area, who said they had never seen nor heard any disturbance take place in the alley.
When questioned further about the incident, and after she expressed reluctance about allowing police to view her cell phone, the victim confessed that the rape had taken place at Garrett’s house, court documents say.
The girl said Garrett identified himself as Marcus, but asked her to call him Q, court documents said. She indicated that at one point he said he and a friend wanted to start a business with a friend and needed “some girls” to make him money, court documents said. He had asked if she had any “nasty friends,” but she said she was not interested in his prostitution idea, according to court documents.

See the full article from “Gilroy Dispatch”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Rx for Silicon Valley success

That question is of great interest and relevance to me. I’ve spent over a decade as a female partner of one of the largest venture capital firms. I was an entrepreneur at a start-up here in Silicon Valley before that. I’m a working mom with a seven-month-old son and a seven-year-old daughter. A first-generation Chinese-American, I “immigrated” to the Valley as a young engineer and business school student.
But before all this, I have been the only non-white, non-native person in my small-town high school and the only woman in the engineering lab, the GM auto plant and the executive boardroom. And, like many women, I’ve had my abilities questioned, my looks appraised, my senses assaulted (a business lunch at a topless bar…but don’t get me started) and my biological clock monitored.

See the full article from “Fortune (blog)”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Cops make arrest in copper theft

Whorton was booked on the same charges as well as an additional count of probation violation. He is currently being held without bail.
It is not known at this time if the two were involved in the recent copper thefts at Danville area parks. During the past week, town maintenance staff reported thefts at both Osage and Hap Magee parks. At Osage, 50 5-inch by 8-inch plaques were stolen from the Rose Memorial. The estimated cost to replace the plaques has been set at $10,000. At Hap Magee, wiring was cut and removed from four junction boxes, affecting pathway lights at the park facility. Cost to repair the damage has been estimated at $4,000.
Shields said the thieves are targeting the copper wire with the intent of reselling it.
“They pull the wire out, and then they take strippers or a box cutter and strip off the insulation,” he explained.

See the full article from “Danville Weekly”

San Jose Strip Clubs: iPad wanted for work over play

Of course, on the downside, there isn’t a whole heck of a lot of enterprise application access to apps. In fact, according to the survey, access to both personal and work information continues to be lacking for most people. Almost two-thirds of respondents estimated they have access to less than 10% of their personal data and work data (59.8% and 69.4% respectively). Access to work applications is also lacking, with almost three-quarters of respondents claiming they have access to less than 10% of the applications they need to do their jobs (72.3%). 67.6% of respondents with smartphones felt that if they could access twice the amount of information and applications they do today, it would benefit their productivity.
Yes, we have an iPhone. Yes, we will buy an iPad. Yes, we are sheeple. In our defense, we still haven’t seen Avatar, and still can’t figure out why any stripper would sleep with a golfer. A golfer for chrissake!

See the full article from “TG Daily”

San Jose Massage Parlors: Council and cannabis collectives brace for showdown in San Jose

One reason many medicinal cannabis dispensaries have so eagerly embraced regulation is to distinguish themselves from “lemonade stands” such as the Purple Elephant at 14th and Santa Clara streets, where neighbors have reported to Liccardo’s office that the vast percentage of “patients” are young adult males.
“The club is duping people,” said Julie Engelbrecht, who lives next door to the dispensary’s parking lot, where a security guard stands watch day and night. “There’s a lot of activity going on that’s more like organized crime than dispensing marijuana to people in need,” she said. “It just doesn’t feel right.”
Engelbrecht said the building used to house a massage parlor, about whose actual business purpose she and her husband were dubious. But the Purple Elephant has made them almost miss the place. “She didn’t have as many clients, they didn’t make as much noise, and we weren’t as nervous,” Engelbrecht said.

See the full article from “San Jose Mercury News”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Time to start making playoff preparations

Next they they have to get over these dreadful starts on the road. Going into last night’s game it’s been a persistent problem that won’t go away and the come-from-behind wins which have been so vital to this team being in the position it is may have compounded the problem. Why worry about a start when you can just reel the other team in?
Clearly you would expect the very nature of the playoffs and their obvious import to wake everyone up at the start. But perhaps it’s time the coaches took a serious look at what they’re they saying, what time and how long are the PP and PK meetings, what type of point outlines are they stressing verbally or graphically? Maybe they have to try something completely different like bringing in a comedian, a guy with a talking dog, strippers from one of the clubs. Anything. It doesn’t take a wizard to figure out that if you start poorly in the playoffs, you need to be getting the golf clubs cleaned.

See the full article from “The Province”

San Jose Escorts: Five Arrested in Gilroy Prostitution Sweep

Five Arrested in Gilroy Prostitution Sweep
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GILROY, Calif. – Five women were arrested Saturday on prostitution charges in Gilroy, police say.
The department’s anti-crime team, along with detectives, conducted an investigation at a number of local motels; Leah Marie Belanger, 24, of Seaside, Keisha Shamane Pagan, 38, of Sacramento, Crystal Starr Haverly, 30, of Monterey, Kristina Marie Kenna 20, of San Jose, and Christy Marie Cravalho 27 were arrested.
Police say the suspects used the Internet to solicit clients, with some indicating minors were involved.

See the full article from “KCBA”

San Jose Escorts: Santa Cruz Sentinel, Calif., Wallace Baine column: ‘Chloe’ takes the low road

At that point, Catherine hires Chloe, a young but sophisticated call girl who haunts the lobbies of luxury hotels. Chloe’s assignment is clear: entrapment. She is to make a move on David and see if he takes the bait.
For a while, the film explores some of the emotional fault lines that lie in any long-term relationship. Catherine, feeling her own youth evaporating, feels cheated that David is more desirable than ever, in her view. And it’s here where the film might have confronted some unspoken but explosive issues of fidelity, age and sexual attraction. It might have had some valuable insights on that painful question that has preoccupied couples at least since Diana Ross and the Supremes: Where did our love go?
Instead, “Chloe,” as it name implies, is much more interested in the young prostitute and her various pathologies. After Catherine and Chloe’s unusual arrangement takes an unexpected turn toward the erotic, the film still had the chance to say something about female sexuality. But again, the lure of portraying sexy/crazy gets the best of Egoyan, and the film overripens into a puerile variation of “Fatal Attraction.”

See the full article from “California Chronicle”

San Jose Adult Entertainment: Bonfire of the Liberties: New Labour, Human Rights and the Rule of Law

Our old liberties have been submerged in the wash from the terrorism patrol boats. The police now have powers to arrest without a warrant for virtually any offence, however trivial. Anti-social behaviour orders are being used against prostitutes and beggars, and about 50 per cent of those who are served with them end up in jail. Stop-and-search powers have inadequate legal authority, while telephone and email interceptions are growing at an alarming rate. There is large-scale but unregulated police infiltration of protest groups, with no safeguards against informers turning into agents provocateurs. Police “kettling” (cordoning off) of demonstrators affects the right to protest, and MPs were so disturbed by Brian Haw’s solitary anti-war protest in Parliament Square that they passed a law empowering the police to remove him in the dead of night. “There is a continuing corrosion of liberty,” Ewing writes, all the more striking because it is happening on the watch of a Labour administration.

See the full article from “New Statesman”

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